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[quote=Anonymous]SES is a huge impact.

Also, the PGCPS curriculum hasn't been that great, to be honest.  The best teachers realized that and managed to scrap it and do their own (better) thing, depending on how heavily micromanaged they were by their administrators.   Some insist teachers stick to the script word for word.

The Language Arts curriculum was heavily sight word based and I saw many students who were struggling readers get by to 2nd or 3rd grade without knowing how to decode because they were able to squeak by with just sight words and guessing, but that strategy stops working at a 3rd grade level which is when students test scores on the old MSA started being visible.  Kids couldn't "get the main idea" and "make inferences based on the text" because they couldn't read the text!  But they'd be placed in Response to Intervention groups to help them "make inferences" and teachers would read everything aloud to the kids so they could get the main idea and make inferences -- back then we were allowed to read the MSA aloud to kids which hid the fact that the couldn't read somewhat.

Anyhow, we still have a group of kids in middle and high school who basically never learned to read.  There is a new curriculum based on Common Core standards, and at the earliest grade level, being able to decode IS being emphasized more.   On the PARCC now the read aloud accommodation has been heavily curtailed, so kids who can't read on grade level are showing up earlier on these tests.   So I am hopeful things are improving.

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